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Program Type: Audiobook (Fiction); Unabridged
Narrator:
Tom Parker
Publisher:
Blackstone Audiobooks, 1999
Length: 11 hours and 37 min.
Audio Format:
Welcome
to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres
and planets. Ninety-three million miles in radius - the
equivalent of one Earth orbit or 600 miles long - 1,000
meters thick, and much sturdier than a Dyson sphere.
What other advantages are there to this world? The
gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of
770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls
1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and
prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel
Ringworld is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for
Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and
the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best
International Science Fiction.
©1970
by Larry Niven; (P)1996 by Blackstone Audiobooks |
